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As a reminder to residents, the city offers an annual curbside pickup of large items for disposal. This year’s curbside pickup dates are as follows:

Saturday, June 12 for residents east of Lackman
Saturday, June 19 for residents west of Lackman

If any resident east of Lackman misses the June 12 date, please call Municipal Services at (913) 477-7880 to schedule another pickup.

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Media Release
June 12, 2010
Contact: Mike Pirner, 913-226-3843
Conservative State Legislators Endorse Patricia Lightner

Olathe, Kan – Former State Rep. Patricia Lightner, Republican candidate for Congress in the 3rd District of Kansas, today announced that a coalition of conservative current and former state legislators are endorsing her campaign.

The list of legislators backing Lightner now includes State Senator Mary Pilcher Cook of Shawnee; State Rep. Rob Olson of Olathe; State Rep. Mike Kiegerl of Olathe; State Rep. Owen Donohoe of Shawnee; State Rep. Jene Vickrey of Louisburg, State Rep. Brenda Landwehr of Wichita, as well as former State Rep. Eric Carter of Overland Park, State Rep. Judy Morrison of Shawnee, and State Rep. Benjamin Hodge of Overland Park.

Lightner said she was honored by the support of her former colleagues. (more…)

Sen. Rolland Burris of Illinois won approval for attaching the amendment to a bill in the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The panel voted 15-12 for the amendment with all Republicans and Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson voting against it and all other Democrats voting for it.

While pro-life lawmakers hope to remove the Burris amendment on the Senate floor, NARAL is asking its members across the nation to contact lawmakers and tell them to support it.

“Breast implants – did you have them or not, because that’s all over the Internet about you, and the mainstream media,” Greta Van Susteren asked Palin on her Fox News “On the Record” show.

Fellow Republicans, College Republicans, and future College Republicans -

This email may be long, but I assure you that it reads quickly and provides important information regarding the future of this nation. If that alone doesn’t have you hooked, fellow patriots, nothing will. (more…)

The enemy within. That’s what Robert F. Kennedy called the then corrupt Teamsters union in the title of a 1960 book. Just maybe it’s time to use that phrase again, referring not to one union especially, but to a whole bunch of them, and employing the words in political speeches, debate and commentary as a rallying cry.

The bunch is those representing public employees. They constitute an extraordinarily powerful special interest that could all but bankrupt any number of local and state governments and vastly increase federal spending.

We start with the story of Americans being kicked into the ranks of the uninsured. Politico reported that “part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September” could cause 1 million people to lose their medical care policies.

They’ll be cut loose because the new law bans insurers from placing caps on the benefits they pay out. This will force what are known as limited-benefit, defined-benefit or mini-med plans off the market.

This issue comes down to presidential leadership. The British Petroleum crisis clearly placed Obama’s presidency in crisis a couple weeks back. Yet the status quo endured. The media pile on ensued. Impressions solidified. This is what happens when the president does not meet the moment.

History tells us how it happens. Perceptions contrast with promises. The measure of the president appears smaller than the problems before him. Presidencies, subtly and at similar junctures, turn south for a long winter.

“The good presidents are able to basically survive these kinds of events, rarely are they able control of them. They find strong political and strategic responses,” said Princeton political historian Julian Zelizer. “The bad presidents make the crisis seem greater than the presidency.”

This turning point is often gradual. Not made by one event. And like all crossroads, clearest in the rear view mirror. But when the perception goes from good to bad on great events, the entire presidency goes bad.

The Queen marked her 84th official birthday today with a review of hundreds of soldiers in the annual Trooping of the Colour.

She wore a light lilac outfit as she inspected rows of crimson-coated Guardsmen while the sun shone weakly over Horse Guards Parade.

The parade included more than 1,400 soldiers in the traditional uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery and Foot Guards.

(Reuters) – A shocking schoolboy howler from England goalkeeper Robert Green gifted the United States a goal as the two sides tipped to qualify from Group C battled to a 1-1 stalemate at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.

LANGLEY – A 17th body has been found as teams continue searching Saturday for people swept away by flash floods at a southwest Arkansas campground.

About 24 people remain unaccounted for, police said.

In a letter to three key members of the House Commerce Committee, the company apologized for collecting fragments of e-mails, search requests and other online activities over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
The company got the information while photographing neighborhoods for its “Street View” mapping feature. Google said it was trying to gather information about the location, strength and configuration of Wi-Fi networks so it could improve the accuracy of location-based services such as Google Maps and driving directions. Going further and collecting snippets of information traveling over those networks “was a mistake,” Pablo Chavez, Google’s director of public policy, wrote in the letter.

Minnesota wildlife managers say it’s because turtles are trying to get from their winter homes to their warm-weather nesting areas. And the state Department of Natural Resources is urging drivers in Minnesota to give turtles a brake.

One sign of the genome’s limited use for medicine so far was a recent test of genetic predictions for heart disease. A medical team led by Nina P. Paynter of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston collected 101 genetic variants that had been statistically linked to heart disease in various genome-scanning studies. But the variants turned out to have no value in forecasting disease among 19,000 women who had been followed for 12 years.

Scientists in the Netherlands unveiled the largest radiotelescope in the world on Saturday, saying it was capable of detecting faint signals from almost as far back as the Big Bang.

LePage, the mayor of Waterville, received 38 percent of the vote in a seven-way GOP Primary race. Mitchell, the president of the State Senate, won 35% support in a four-way Democratic race. Cutler, a longtime Democratic party activist, is viewed as the strongest of three independents who are running.
In a Portland Press Herald news report, a political scientist in the state characterized the resulting race this way: “The two parties have nominated the most liberal Democrat and the most conservative Republican. … That leaves a great gap in the center.”
LePage holds a double-digit lead among male voters, while Mitchell edges him among female voters.
Republicans appear to have recovered more quickly from their divisive primary than Democrats have. Eighty-two percent (82%) of GOP voters now support LePage, while 67% of Democrats favor Mitchell. Among voters not affiliated with either party, 44% like LePage, 24% Mitchell and 10% Cutler.